a synthetic chemical medicine derived from cinchona that was used to treat arthritis and rheumatism before it was found to be toxic.
A compound name combining cinchona with -phen (a chemical suffix), created in early 20th-century pharmaceutical laboratories.
Cinchophen is a cautionary tale in medicine—it was widely prescribed for arthritis in the 1920s-30s before doctors realized it damaged the liver and kidneys, teaching the medical world valuable lessons about testing drugs thoroughly.
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